Tone Deafness Quotes

Metaphorical tone deafness is when people are unable to discern what is of value in something. I think I'm tone deaf to poetry, for instance. Despite having studied it into a second year of university, most of it just leaves me cold.

I was studying pre-med at UCLA when I decided show business was for me, and the best way to make it was in music. I had just one problem. I was tone deaf.

Only the tone-deaf doubt the power of music, though some feel it more strongly than others.

I'm pretty sarcastic, and sometimes that doesn't come across on the Internet. It seems like I'm being rude or stupid.

I don't sing. I do everybody a favor and I don't sing.

My mother tried to teach me when I was a small child to sing but failed because of my inability to carry a tune.

When you're being earnest, people think you're being sarcastic, and when you're being sarcastic, they think you're being earnest. The moral in all this, of course, is that people should never attempt to communicate.

I can't hold a tune at all.

Sometimes I say things that I think are obviously sarcastic and people take them quite literally.

Every once in a while, friends leave sarcastic comments on photos. I know they're joking, but the sarcastic humor doesn't always translate well when I am sitting behind my screen reading it. In person, it's easier to play it off as a joke, but online, it can come across as offensive.

I dread karaoke. I hate karaoke. I can't sing - that is why.

There's hardly anything I've ever done that's made me cringe; I've got pretty good pitch, for a start, so I'm not known for hitting bum notes.

I was an awful singer when I was younger.

You can either sing or you can't. And I'm one of the can'ts.

It upsets me where you do a take and people go 'that's so funny,' and you think 'I was being serious.'

ASS, n. A public singer with a good voice but no ear.

I have the soul of a singer and do splendidly in the shower but the world will never hear it. Basically, I'm the only Irish person who can't carry a tune.

I really don't have an ear for pitch. I can't sing at all, I can't hum melodies and I can't write riffs.

Even if nobody's singing, just when you talk, you're singing. I'll meet somebody and say, "Oh, I'm tone-deaf." I say, "You're not tone-deaf, because if you were tone-deaf you would speak like that. But you're 'Oh, I'm tone-deaf.' You already sang a song to me."

I tweet from bed. I love it because it's so quick. And it's funny. But it also leaves a lot of room for error because new people don't sense the sarcasm - there's no sarcasm font.

I can carry a tune with a three-note range. Once I'm out of that range, I'm in trouble.

I think you inherit most of your talent from your parents, although sometimes a fabulously talented singer grows out of the union of two tone-deaf people

In fact, I love singing. I just have a small problem with pitch, tune, melody, and lyrics. But that's never stopped me.

What really irks me is the snide victimizing suggestion from some that I have tried to be lighthearted and funny... Oh my God - this is so offensive.

They really can't imagine what my voice is like. Every time I sing a song, they are very surprised.